We Share Everything, Even Germs

Well, Dan was sick last weekend. Now it is my turn. Yep, he gave me his icky germs. I started feeling not so great Tuesday night and basically slept and medicated myself all of Wednesday. Today I still sound horrible (and I feel pretty bad, too) but I think I'm on an upswing. I hope. I'm able to stay awake for more than an hour and a half at a time and my head has unfogged just enough that I can be a little productive... sorta. I can knit. (Yesterday I couldn't even get enough brain power to pick what cup to use for tea. Having enough brain power to knit is huge.)

So what have I been doing with my massive increase in brainpower? Well, first off I made an I-cord for the drawstring bag knit project (the one that had given me such fits when I started it the first two times) and blocked the bag.

Honestly, I wasn't all that in love with the reverse stockinette bumps at the top of the bag (I apparently have a thing against how reverse stockinette looks), but once the drawstring is threaded and it is tied closed, the bag looks pretty cute. I did a seersucker pattern for the body of the bag (versus the pattern's stockinette stitch) and I really like how that turned out. I really have no idea what I'm going to do with this bag once it is all blocked and officially finished, but I have to say, I learned a ton while doing it so I don't consider the time (or the yarn) wasted.

And since the bag was now blocking, that meant I had no active project. I debated between either a hat or mittens to match my recently made scarf. After playing with the scarf some more (what can I say, it's fun!) I figured that the scarf actually doubles as a nice hood/scarf combo so a hat might be overkill. Which means my next (now current) project is mittens!

This is the fourth project in my learn-circular-knit book (I skipped the third project cause I didn't like it) and there are new things for me to learn. Hopefully it will go a little smoother than the drawstring bag!

As an unrelated aside? TheraFlu tastes awful, even with lots of honey in it. Yuck!